You Can Get 10TB of Free Cloud Storage If You Trust This Random Company

Cloud storage is great, especially when it comes with free space. Big guys like Google and Microsoft will give you a few GB to get started, but a Chinese tech company called Tencent is offering an insane 10TB. For free. All you have to do is trust them.

First, you won't get it all at once. Instead, Tencent will start you out with a (still hefty) 1TB to start, and then as you fill it up, they'll apparently pump up your limit until it hits 10TB. No word on whether or not it goes back down if you delete stuff, but there's only one way to find out.

Second, where the hell are these guys getting so much free server space, and why would you ever trust them with that much of your data? Are they using looping hard drives? What is going on?

Aside from the too-good-to-be-trueness of 10TB and any resulting trust issues, Tecent's app is also entirely in Chinese, so good luck trying to use it. But maybe this can put some pressure on other cloud players to up the free storage ante? That's sort like asking someone with a water gun to step up its game against a nuclear threat, but it's worth a shot.